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Every lesson has a narrated video made from the same charts and numbers you practise on here, and every video links to the lesson or lab where you can reproduce it. 88 are scripted and being published on YouTube.

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Chart school · 21

Long episodes that teach the week’s topic on charts, ending on a chart you can replay.

  • Chart school · Episode 1Every candle tells four pricesLesson: The four prices of a candleComing soon
  • Chart school · Episode 2Doji, hammer, shooting star: the exact rulesLesson: Hammer and hanging manComing soon
  • Chart school · Episode 3Engulfing and stars without memorisingLesson: EngulfingComing soon
  • Chart school · Episode 4Finding the tops and bottoms that matterLesson: Swing highs and lowsComing soon
  • Chart school · Episode 5Levels you can measureLesson: Support and resistanceComing soon
  • Chart school · Episode 6Read a full chart in seven stepsLesson: Breakouts and failed breakoutsComing soon
  • Chart school · Week 7 · Plan before the tradeEntry, stop and target before the tradeLesson: Invalidation and the full planComing soon
  • Chart school · Week 8 · R and expectancyWhy a 40% win rate can make moneyLesson: Expectancy per tradeComing soon
  • Chart school · Week 9 · Position sizingHow much to risk per trade, by the numbersLesson: Volatility sizingComing soon
  • Chart school · Week 10 · Streaks and drawdownsTen losses in a row is normalLesson: Losing streaksComing soon
  • Chart school · Week 13 · How to test a pattern yourselfHow to test a pattern yourselfLesson: Control groupsComing soon
  • Chart school · Week 14 · Your first honest backtestYour first honest backtestLesson: Rules as codeComing soon
  • Chart school · Week 15 · Look-ahead and survivorship biasLook-ahead and survivorship biasLesson: Look-ahead biasComing soon
  • Chart school · Week 16 · Tuning a rule until it breaksTuning a rule until it breaksLesson: In-sample and out-of-sampleComing soon
  • Chart school · Week 17 · In-sample, out-of-sample, walk-forwardIn-sample, out-of-sample, walk-forwardLesson: Walk-forwardComing soon
  • Chart school · Week 18 · One equity curve is not enoughOne equity curve is not enoughLesson: Reshuffled trade sequencesComing soon
  • Chart school · Week 19 · Trend following from scratchTrend following from scratchLesson: BreakoutsComing soon
  • Chart school · Week 20 · Mean reversion and z-scoresMean reversion and z‑scoresLesson: Z-scoresComing soon
  • Chart school · Week 21 · Momentum and volatility targetingMomentum and volatility targetingLesson: Time-series momentumComing soon
  • Chart school · Week 22 · Combining two strategiesCombining two strategiesLesson: CorrelationComing soon
  • Chart school · Week 23 · Thinking in probabilitiesThinking in probabilitiesLesson: Thinking in probabilitiesComing soon

Edge or noise · 13

A claim put on trial with data, ending in a verdict you can check in the labs.

  • Edge or noise · Week 7 · Stop widthTight stop or wide stop: which survives?Lesson: Stop placementComing soon
  • Edge or noise · Week 8 · Win rateWin rate is a trap: three strategies comparedLesson: Win rate versus payoffComing soon
  • Edge or noise · Week 9 · KellyKelly versus 1%: 10,000 simulated tradersLesson: Fractional KellyComing soon
  • Edge or noise · Week 10 · Losing stretchesHow long can a good strategy lose?Lesson: Drawdown depthComing soon
  • Edge or noise · Week 13 · The morning starThe morning star on forty years of dataLesson: Confidence intervalsComing soon
  • Edge or noise · Week 14 · CostsCosts: the same strategy with and without feesLesson: Costs and slippageComing soon
  • Edge or noise · Week 15 · The perfect backtestWe built a perfect backtest. It was wrong.Lesson: Look-ahead biasComing soon
  • Edge or noise · Week 16 · 1,000 random strategies1,000 random strategies: how many look brilliant?Lesson: Data snoopingComing soon
  • Edge or noise · Week 17 · Gaps: do they fill?Gaps: do they fill?Lesson: Control groupsComing soon
  • Edge or noise · Week 18 · Blind testBlind test: which equity curve has an edge?Lesson: Bootstrap of returnsComing soon
  • Edge or noise · Week 19 · Breakouts on trialBreakouts on trialLesson: BreakoutsComing soon
  • Edge or noise · Week 21 · The day-of-the-week effectThe day-of-the-week effectLesson: Time-series momentumComing soon
  • Edge or noise · Week 23 · OvertradingMore trades, more profit?Coming soon

Course lessons · 12

One video for each original lesson, plus the course introduction and Track E.

Shorts · 42

Under a minute: name the candle, predict the result, one number that changes how you trade.

  • Math in 30 secondsFive losses in a row is normalComing soon
  • Coach correctionYour best trade was a mistakeComing soon
  • Math in 30 secondsChoose your worst day in advanceComing soon
  • Myth versus dataMore trades, more profit?Coming soon
  • Name this candleName this candle: hammerLesson: Hammer and hanging manComing soon
  • Name this candleName this candle: hanging manLesson: Hammer and hanging manComing soon
  • Name this candleName this candle: shooting starLesson: Shooting star and inverted hammerComing soon
  • Name this candleName this candle: inverted hammerLesson: Shooting star and inverted hammerComing soon
  • Name this candleName this candle: dojiLesson: DojiComing soon
  • Name this candleName this candle: bullish marubozuLesson: MarubozuComing soon
  • Name this candleName this candle: bearish marubozuLesson: MarubozuComing soon
  • Coach correction · Week 7Half an ATR is not a stopLesson: Stop placementComing soon
  • Predict the next candle · Week 7Where does your market order fill?Lesson: Invalidation and the full planComing soon
  • Math in 30 seconds · Week 7Your stop sets your sizeLesson: Stop placementComing soon
  • Myth versus data · Week 7Wide stops win more. So what?Lesson: Stop placementComing soon
  • Name this candleName this candle: bullish engulfingLesson: EngulfingComing soon
  • Math in 30 seconds · Week 8The win rate you actually needLesson: Win rate versus payoffComing soon
  • Coach correction · Week 8“I won 7 of my last 10”Lesson: Expectancy per tradeComing soon
  • Predict the result · Week 8Twenty trades, forty percentLesson: Expectancy per tradeComing soon
  • Myth versus data · Week 8A 70% win rate that losesLesson: Win rate versus payoffComing soon
  • Predict the next candlePredict: after a hammerLesson: Hammer and hanging manComing soon
  • Myth versus data · Week 9Double the risk, double the profit?Lesson: The Kelly criterionComing soon
  • Math in 30 seconds · Week 9The Kelly fraction in one lineLesson: The Kelly criterionComing soon
  • Predict the result · Week 9Kelly with the wrong edgeLesson: Fractional KellyComing soon
  • Coach correction · Week 9“I always trade 413 shares”Lesson: Volatility sizingComing soon
  • Predict the next candlePredict: after a shooting starLesson: Shooting star and inverted hammerComing soon
  • Predict the result · Week 10Same trades, new orderLesson: Risk of ruin and sequence riskComing soon
  • Coach correction · Week 10“Down 50%, I need 50% back”Lesson: Drawdown depthComing soon
  • Myth versus data · Week 10Ten losses means it is broken?Lesson: Losing streaksComing soon
  • Math in 30 seconds · Week 10What ten losses cost youLesson: Drawdown depthComing soon
  • Predict the next candlePredict: after a bullish engulfingLesson: EngulfingComing soon
  • Predict the next candlePredict: after an evening starLesson: Stars, soldiers and crowsComing soon
  • Myth versus data · Week 13The morning star: 27 cases in 40 yearsLesson: Confidence intervalsComing soon
  • Coach correctionCoach correction: that is not a hammerLesson: Hammer and hanging manComing soon
  • Myth versus data · Week 14Fees decide the signLesson: Costs and slippageComing soon
  • Coach correctionCoach correction: a wick is not a breakoutLesson: Breakouts and failed breakoutsComing soon
  • Myth versus data · Week 15The perfect backtest was one day earlyLesson: Look-ahead biasComing soon
  • Coach correctionCoach correction: draw the level at the clusterLesson: Support and resistanceComing soon
  • Myth versus data · Week 1663 brilliant strategies, zero edgeLesson: Data snoopingComing soon
  • Coach correctionCoach correction: a doji is not a reversal signalLesson: DojiComing soon
  • Myth versus data · Week 17Gaps fill? Check the controlLesson: Control groupsComing soon
  • Myth versus data · Week 18The best curve was luckLesson: Bootstrap of returnsComing soon